#Anyone able to help me try and recreate a sound with vital?

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jolly rock
tepid plover
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this sound takes like 10 seconds to make

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i will make a video to show this

jolly rock
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Thanks sm

tepid plover
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to put in in words, it's a sine wave lightly FMing another sine wave

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there's probably like, an additional harmonic or 2 in there

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which would brighten the sound a bit, but that's the general idea

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you can finesse with waveshapes, amounts, harmonics, bend modes, whatever

jolly rock
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oooh cool thanks sm!

jolly rock
tepid plover
# jolly rock wdym by an additional harmonic?

A sine wave is a pure tone, the purest mathematical oscillation that does not generate any harmonics

Harmonics are a phenomenon where when you hear a sound, you are not only hearing the frequency of the sound, but multiple frequencies at the same time. It doesn't sound like separate frequencies because these additional frequencies are multiples or the fundamental frequency, as a result you hear many frequencies from a single note in most cases with most instruments but it's perceived as one "note"

In synthesis, since the sine wave is a pure tone, and we're using frequency modulation, FM is heavily affected by small changes in the the frequency content of the oscillators, so adding some of these upper harmonics, can drastically change the sound in this context

jolly rock
tepid plover
jolly rock
tepid plover
jolly rock
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ok

tepid plover
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the logic of what you're doing changes, you have one oscillator affecting the other

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so, you either have, oscillator 1 has additional harmonics and is being fmd by a sine wave, or you have oscillator 1 is a sine wave being fm'd by a sine wave with additional harmonics, or you have oscillator 1 and 2 are both custom waveforms

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both will impact the sound in different ways